Annual Report of the American Woman's Educational Association

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Página 41 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Página 3 - Association is to aid in securing to American Women a liberal education, honorable position, and remunerative employment in their appropriate profession ; the distinctive profession of woman being considered as embracing the training of the human mind, the care of the human body in infancy and in sickness, and the conservation of the family state.
Página 22 - ... celibates, but by employing the unoccupied energies of thousands of young women from their school-days to the period of marriage, while, at the same time, they will thus be qualifying themselves for the most arduous duties of their future domestic relations. In view of these considerations, your memorialists petition that...
Página 22 - In the end prove a measure of wise economy, and at the same time will tend to render education more universal and more elevated by securing the best class of teachers at a moderate expense. 4. That those most willing to teach...
Página 7 - ARTICLE 3 The leading measure to be pursued by this Association is the establishment of permanent, endowed institutions, for women; embracing the leading features of college and professional institutions for the other sex, ie, they shall be conducted by a Faculty of Teachers, each being the head of a given department, and no one having control over the others. An office corresponding to that of the President of a college, shall be optional with those who control each institution.
Página 22 - ... to one. 3. That while, as a general rule, women are not expected to support families, nor to pay from their earnings to support the State, they can afford to teach for a smaller compensation than men, and therefore funds bestowed to educate...
Página 4 - Pupils, and any others who may wish and are qualified to enter, shall constitute the Normal Department. The Normal Pupils shall act as Assistants in the Primary and High School Departments, under the direction of the Principal Teachers. ART. 5. With each institution shall be connected an organization of ladies resident in the place of location, who, with the Teachers of the Normal Department, shall carry out a system for raising up schools in destitute places, and for securing employ and suitable...
Página 19 - Second: As soon as the teachers have secured public confidence, and proved that they can work harmoniously together, the citizens shall erect a building at an expense of not less than ten thousand dollars, and engage to give gratuitous tuition to twenty normal pupils. In return, the Association shall provide an endowment of twenty thousand dollars, the interest of which shall furnish the salaries of three superior teachers, each having charge of one of the three departments set forth above, as constituting...
Página 9 - The mode of establishing such institutions shall be as follows : An agent of this Association shall make this offer to some city or large town in a section where teachers and schools are most needed. First : That the citizens shall organize a Board of Trustees, in which the various religious denominations...

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